Quotes About Strategy

We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.

A general must be a charlatan.

A commander in chief ought to say to himself several times a day: If the enemy should appear on my front, on my right, on my left, what would I do? And if the question finds him uncertain, he is not well placed, he is not as he should be, and he should remedy it.

The nature of strategy consists of always having, even with a weaker army, more forces at the point of attack or at the point where one is being attacked than the enemy.

It is not that addresses at the opening of a battle make the soldiers brave. The old veterans scarcely hear them, and recruits forget them at the first boom of the cannon. Their usefulness lies in their effect on the course of the campaign, in neutralizing rumors and false reports, in maintaining a good spirit in the camp, and in furnishing matter for camp-fire talk. The printed order of the day should fulfill these different ends.

In Love, Victory goes to the man who runs away

It is only with prudence, sagacity, and much dexterity that great aims are accomplished, and all obstacles surmounted. Otherwise nothing is accomplished.

Napoléon ubicumque felix.

When your opponent is making a mistake, do nothing to interfere.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.

It is about attacking a problem with the most manicured of claws and tearing it down into sensible, edible pieces.

The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.

football field, but you don't play football all the time," says Kenzie. "A running back can't always rush. Sometimes you have to hold back. Think of what might happen if I used my super strength all the time.

I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.

If you fail to plan, you're planning to fail." – Benjamin Franklin

Get there first with the most men.

To learn how to love your enemies, read the Bible. To learn how to survive them, read the Art of War.

We must take the long view—every defeat is a victory in a war of attrition.

We learned that indecision is a decision, that inaction has a cost all its own. Good commanders act and create opportunities. Great commanders ruthlessly exploit those opportunities

Our goals were redundancy and mutual support.

Arisa: "You bastard! Why don't I teach you a lesson!" Kyo: "I'd like to see you try, bitch!" Yuki: "I have a winning hand." Tohru: "I knew you'd be good at this.

Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.